Fwd: Neumann-Holzschuh & Schneider, eds., "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages"

[Dave Robertson]

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Subject: 12.632, Books: Language Acquisition, Creole Language
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:36:08 -0000
From: The LINGUIST Network <linguist at linguistlist.org>

Date:  Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:22:00 -0500
From:  Paul Peranteau <paul at benjamins.com>
Subject:  Creole Lang: Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new  work in Creole Language study:

Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages.
Ingrid NEUMANN-HOLZSCHUH and Edgar W. SCHNEIDER (eds.)
(University of Regensburg)
Creole Language Library 22
US & Canada:   1 58811 039 7 / USD 120.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 5244 0 / NLG 265.00 (Hardcover)

Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category
of "creole languages" itself, have been questioned in recent years:
Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical
grounds? Can creolization be understood as a graded process, possibly
resulting in different degrees of "radicalness" and intermediate
language types ("semi-creoles")? If so, by which linguistic structures
are these characterized, and by which extralinguistic conditions have
they been brought about? Which are the linguistic mechanisms
underlying processes of restructuring, and how did grammaticalization
and reanalysis shape the reorganization of linguistic, specifically
morphosyntactic structures commonly called "creolization"? What is the
role of language contact, language mixing, substrates and
superstrates, or demographic factors in these processes? This volume
provides select and revised papers from a 1998 colloquium at the
University of Regensburg in which these questions were addressed. 19
contributions by renowned scholars discuss structural, sociohistorical
and theoretical aspects, building upon case studies of both
Romance-based and English-oriented creoles. This book marks a major
step forward in our understanding of the nature of creolization.

Contributions by:
John Holm; Philip Baker; Salikoko S. Mufwene; John McWhorter,
Mervyn C. Alleyne; Ulrich Detges; Susanne Michaelis; Mikael Parkvall;
Donald Winford; Alexander Kautzsch and Edgar W. Schneider;
Magnus Huber; Ingo Plag and Christian Uffmann; Peter Mühlhäusler;
Robert Chaudenson; Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh; Armin Schwegler; John M. Lipski;
Jürgen Lang.


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